Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-24
MRS. TERRY'S LIBEL SUIT.
All Sorts of .Kuses Adopted by Pu
liter to Interview Her.

All Sorts OF kuSeS Adopted by Pu'
liter to Interview Her.
NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-I met last week
Mrs. Kate Louise Terry, who has re.
Gently come into large fortune after a
most romantic career. She is pushing
her libel suit against the World. The
papers were served on Mr.. Joseph Pu-
liter on Tuesday. Damages are put at
100000.
All sorts of ruses were adopted by Mr..
Pulitzer to obtain an interview with Mrs.
Terry, who is stopping at a wel-kuown
hotel with her baby helress, Juanita
Teresita, and two French maids. To
avoid the reporters she has not regis
tered. Reporters, detectives and per-
sonal friends OF Mr.. Fromme, her lawyer.
have been influenced by Mr.. Pulitzer to
endeavor to obtain her address. Mr..
Fromme's office has been overrun with
| people in Mr.. Pulitzer's employ.
Through them he has offered to retract and
has also intimated that he is not the pro-
prletor OF the World, but only the figure
| head for an unknown syndicate.
Mrs. Terry is a plump, handsome
| blonde, with a prOfusion of golden hair
and large expressive blue eyes. She is
| five feet six IN height, with q fine, we'll
proportional figure and determined
manner. Her features are large with
the exception of her nose, which is small
and straight. Her hands and feet are
| slender and shapely.
When l saw her she wore a loose. flow
| ing robe of black, known as a peignoir,
trimmed with Grape. Although only re.
Gently recovered from her confinement,
she showed few traces OF her illness
She conversed pleasantly and intelli-
| gently. In answer to my inquiries, she
said that the libel cOmpl aimed of is q
statement published in the World of Dec
| II, which SAID that she was the same
woman that figured as a keeper Of a house
OF ill-tame in this city under the name OIL
| Kate Williams, and that she turned
| States evidence to save herself from a
| charge of counterieiting. The records
| of the courts show that these statements
are false. She said that many of the
other stories published about her were
untrue. Her own story of her life's his
tory is briefly this:
She was born In Liverpool In 1865. Hel
| uncle and aunt, with whom she lived
we're stockholders IN the Washington
| Hotel, where she became cashier. There
she met Charles Wells, gentleman, who
had 5000, 900 worth of United States bonds
in the hotel safe. They were married and
WCnb W L dTISs WUtIS uS Op6H6u UldR0lU'
| cent saloon. 1t failed and they came tC
America. Here she learned that her bus.
band was really Charles Billiard, a no.
torious burglar, with another wife and
children. Convinced that she was not his
wife, she left him and assumed her maiden
name OF Flynn. She took her two Chill.
dren along with her. In New York she
married Juan Pedro Terry, son Of TomasC
| Terry. Cuban planter worth $40, 600, 600
Juan Pedro died shortly after his fathers
death last fall, leaving his wife 100000
and the income of $4,000, 600 bequeathed
TO his child until the latter should become
of age. Juanita Teresita was born on
| Nov. IL. She has dark Cuban features
and complexion. Mrs. Terry intends tC
make New York her permanentresIdence
! Nearly the whole of the city of Glen,
fuegos, Cuba, belongs to the Terry estate
Tomaso Terry had a great love for hts
| children, but all his sons were very wild
| except Jose Emilio, who is a lawyer and
| the executor of his fathers vast estate
lie is short and light complexioned, while
all the rest of the family are tall, slende
and very dark. The children are scat
| tered all over the globe.
CHARLES J. RosEBAULT.